Never have I tried so hard to like a game

I first started playing on the 1st of january, but after a week I had to take a month long break to keep myself from going crazy. I got to 41, and after the second, or third day I had to force myself to play every minute that I did because of how much of a chore it was. In games with less story, and that are less innovative I have had no trouble getting to cap without feeling like I am pulling teeth... but not in this game. Well I won't go into big detail on this, but just wanted to let you know that I had too do that with playing very little.

I bought a new PC for this game, and was so excited with every announcement with every MMO I have played I always wished that I could get a more immersive, and better story telling experience with an MMO, and SWTOR brings that, however the leveling process is just so dull to me. I cam back a few days ago because of how much I just want to like this game. I want to love this game so much, but I still feel that it's just so dull, and more grind than an eastern MMO. I feel like the reward for effort per hour is much much much much much much less compared to other MMOs. For the past few days I rolled a new toon a jedi consular > shadow, and after the nightmare my Marauder had while leveling on level with the quests to 41 while skipping all group quests, and everything else I made 100% sure I would be above the level for all the quests. At the moment my shadow is 30, and just hit Tatooine, and all the PvP / Space battles I have done is so ridiculous. I try to sometimes find a group for a quest, but it's almost impossible, and it's even less likely to find a group for a flash point.

I feel like head butting my keyboard after every republic loss in PvP because I swear for every 10 BGs I do I end up winning 1... You can say "Obviously it's you!" all you want, but theres no way a single person can drag a group down like that in BGs, and besides I actually know what to do, unlike most. I even rerolled my shadow on a PVE server because of the 20+ gankings per planet I got on my Marauder. I only got from 26 to 28 on Nar Shadaa, and that's what really spurred all this rage because I just spent a looooooong time grinding space battles, and BGs getting from 28-30... I tried over, and over to get a Mandalorian group to no avail... I have never in my life felt like an MMO is a job, but this is actually starting to feel like one, because once again like a month before I am having to force myself to log on. I am going to continue giving this game a chance however, mainly because of how much I loved Kotor, all bio-ware games, and the star wars genre... but there is only so much torture I can take before I finally uninstall. Worst comes to worst I will level every class to 30, then quit so I can at least experience the most fun part of the game...

Before anyone accuses me of being an MMO noob realize this...
(In Order)
FFXI - Level capped characters did tons of end game
Ragnarok Online - Level capped characters did tons of end game
WoW - Level capped characters raided for 5 years before 4.2 killed it for me.

I played each of those game for many, many, many years, and in no way are they easy mode games (hate all you want we both know it's not true.) So I am not new to MMOs, and I am not new to bio-ware games, so I have no clue why I get so sick of this game at the point of 30. I am not going to BG, or Space Battle any more past this point, so I hope all of the extra experience I have gotten keeps me ahead for the run, because if not I am definitely out.

Just had to vent on here, because I am sooooo exhausted right now like I have never been before playing a VIDEO *GAME*!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!

I have the same issue. I won't play for weeks some times because I just can't bring myself to the grind. I enjoy the class story but after 30 there is very little of it and everything else is kill X amount of these, or gather/destroy X amount of these and repeat. Over and over on every planet.

The game needs some variety in it's quests. Some puzzles, some bombing runs, some racing, anything! Leveling really is a chore.

I loved every lvl. Did not even feel like a grind at all.

In WoW the content has been reused over and over again since TBC, the only difference is the boss name, boss look and the arena you fight him on.
Ever since TBC WoW has gotten more and more terrible, I'll give you 2 years of end-game content that was actually good (Vanilla was so unbalanced and buggy it felt like Blizzard wasn't even working for 99% of the time). WotLK was a joke; Ulduar was the only good thing to come out of that expansion and Blizzard did a good job of introducing heroic mode fights, but ofc they nerfed that (now you just press a button GG Blizz). They f'ed up big time with LFD, tried to redeem themselves with Cataclysm, but failed horribly after the 2 beginning raids (nerfz time!). Whoever came up with LFR and LFD needs to be shot, they aren't all that's wrong with WoW, but good god, removing those features would do a ton towards dragging it from the bottom of the barrel.

You compare a 7 year old game that got famous just because it was so easy, to a 1 and a half month old game that drew most people in because of it's RPG elements. If you really believe that WoW was hard, then it was you who was the problem in FPs and WZs.